A Curious Earth

A Curious Earth

Gerard Woodward

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2099
ISBN:
9780099490654
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By the author of Booker-shortlisted I’ll Go To Bed At Noon.Aldous Jones is in a bad way: his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son. A preference for whisky over washing rapidly leads to his hospitalisation but it also reawakens his desire for sex and adventure and his lifelong passion for art. What follows is a heartbreakingly funny quest that will lead him first to the National Gallery where he is bewitched by a Rembrandt painting and then to Ostend to stay with his boemian son and a ridiculous Dutch sexologist and then through a series of somewhat misguided relationships with sympathetic women to an ending of devatating poignancy...

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